I’m greatly anticipating Sunday morning, December 23 in the life of Elevation Church.
Elevators… if you haven’t heard, we’ll be rocking Cricket Arena for a joint worship experience with New Birth Charlotte, and my good friend, Pastor Terrell Murphy.
For all of you out of towners, Cricket is a 10,000 seat auditorium, which will amply accommodate [...]

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Part III-FINAL
You may want to catch up here and here .
When you’re hearing God say things that no one else is hearing, sometimes you’ll feel like Abraham:
The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you.”
Sometimes, stepping out on faith [...]

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PART II
See yesterday’s post for a primer.
Sometimes when you’re hearing a sound that no one else hears, you’ll end up building things that have never been built.
Think of Noah. Building an ark… according to blueprint… for protection from the flood… before he’d ever seen a drop of rain! (I’m picturing Steve Carell as Noah [...]

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PART 1
If you ever pass me on the road, and it looks like I’m dancing in my car, I am. I dance in my car all the time. Well, I guess you can call it dancing. That’s debatable. Banging on the steering wheel like a drum set, driving with my knees while I clap [...]

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The modern church is obsessed with customer service. And we should be.
Helpful parking lot attendants, cheerful greeters, excellent programming…
You know that I entirely embrace (and applaud and promote and insist on) all of these elements of the modern worship experience.
The customer service in the Church of the Living God should rival Disney, Ritz-Carlton, and Nordstrom.
But [...]

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We kicked off our Christmas series today at Elevation, and over 140 people gave their lives to Christ. That made for a pretty phenomenal early Christmas present for this pastor.
All glory to Jesus!

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